Highly Notorious Monsters

[Alhanelem]

I like that a lot better. I'm not in any way opposed to the spirit of your suggestion. I'm very specific about what I don't want- I don't want FFXI's HNMs to be implemented the same way in FFXIV. It doesn't mean I don't want them at all- It only means I want them without the frustration and annoyance and large amount of idling the old system had (Honestly: That's actually what I hated most: Sitting around doing nothing for up to 3 hours.)

But the glory of it all, was the branches of content. There was so much to kill, you could decide what you wanted to go after.

Only thing is most of this came much later. For quite a long time, the only "HNMs" were the Three Kings, their KSNM clones, and maybe Kirin. Then the three wyrms in CoP. Then the three new kings in ToAU. It wasn't until ZNM that it started branching out a lot more.

[ThePatriarch]

I like that a lot better. I'm not in any way opposed to the spirit of your suggestion. I'm very specific about what I don't want- I don't want FFXI's HNMs to be implemented the same way in FFXIV. It doesn't mean I don't want them at all- It only means I want them without the frustration and annoyance and large amount of idling the old system had (Honestly: That's actually what I hated most: Sitting around doing nothing for up to 3 hours.)

As do we all!

I loath even the thought of sitting around for 3 hours hoping every 30 minutes that X-HNM will pop.

I like the thought of 6hour, possibly an 8 hour respawn. With just 1 (one) 15 minute window. Hell, it could be 5 minutes I guess.

Lets say that in FFXIV they release an HNM called Fafnir. Say Fafnir has an 8 Hour repop, with 1 quick 15 min window.

Fafnir is due to pop at 8:37pm. We can roll out at 8:20, get to camp a few minutes early, window hits and he pops within 4 minutes. Even if you lose claim, less than a half an hour used up, and you can get back to whatever you were doing, or move on to your next daily event.

And HNM's are just a small morsel for our hardcore crowd, we all need to be thrown a little piece of the bone.

Alas, HNM's should hopefully be just a morsel of the diversity of which will hopefully be NM's. Along with HNM should come instanced NM's, force spawn NM's, lottery spawn NM's, and many unique styles to cater to all branches of the game, and not solely for the hardcore.